Jinju Lantern Festival Food

Delicious Dried Octopus: 3000 Won for a bag full of Buttered Warm Chewy Octopus

 Grilled Chicken Skewers: 2000 Won and you put your own sauce on top either teriyaki, mild hot sauce, hot sauce, sweet chili...It was cooked perfectly and very tasty with flavor.

Fried Chicken Cup with Coke Slushy underneath hence the straw: 2000 Won. It tastes like small nuggets with ketchup and sweet mustard and on the bottom of the cup is coke slushy. One time deal for me as it wasn't as good as the grilled chicken skewers.

The Spiral Potato Stick is good but cold. It tastes like potato chips on a skewer stick. It cost around 2000 Won. 

DIY: Monkey Bread

Delicious Monkey Bread with Pillsbury dough boy!! 

Very simple to make and easy. This is a quick fix for a snack. 

1/3 cup of Sugar, 1/4 cup of cinnamon, 3 TBS of melted butter and pillsbury crescents or biscuits will do

Glaze: 1/4 cup or less depending how much glaze you want..Confection powder sugar, 3-4 tsp of milk put together and should make a thick syrup glaze

Mix sugar and cinnamon together and then melt at least 3 TBS of melted butter. Roll out the pillsbury's dough, cut with a pizza cutter as shown in the picture or just roll it flat, brush with butter and add the cinnamon sugar and roll it up and cut after when it is baked. (Use a bread loaf for this one) Lightly brush the dough with butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top and roll it up and place them in a square container or anything you like. Place in a conventional oven or oven at 300 degrees for about 20-25 minutes.

Wahhh laaa Delicious Monkey Bread!! Hope you enjoy this quick fix...

Ginza: Favorite Sushi Spot

Ginza is an all you can eat japanese buffet but made fresh when ordered. It is not that far from my house, but I only go to Ginza once in a blue moon since it is a buffet. I don't want to get obese!! lol.. It is really good. I love the food that they serve. It was really delicious when I went. The price differs when eating during lunch and dinner. Lunch is cheaper but the list is cut down a little bit. Lunch is about $25 per person. It also doesn't have sashimi during lunch. Which is my favorite.. TT Dinner has everything, it is about $30 per person. It is not that bad for a buffet with all the seafood, you can eat. Let me know, how your experience was at Ginza..? I would love to hear about it! 

DIY: Easy Flaky Scallion Pancakes

Hello All! I know I have been m.i.a but if you follow my main blog you will understand why...Anyways back to the Flaky Scallion Pancakes.

This is a delicious snack to make and it is really easy to make. 

The ingredients that you will need:

3 cups of flour
1 cup of boiling water
1/4 cup of cold water
2 bunches of green onions
Bowl of salt
Shortening 
Sesame oil used for frying 

1. Start boiling the water. 
2. Clean and cut onions finely.
3. In a large bowl, add 3 cups of flour and 1 cup of boiling water stir until the consistency looks like bread crumbs, then add 1/4 cups of water to cool down the temperature. 
4. On a clean surface, slightly dusk the counter with flour to prevent the dough from sticking on the table. Knead the dough until it is not sticky. Make sure the dough is smooth and bouncy (5-10 minutes)
5. Cut a long horizontally piece of dough and roll out the dough like a log. Cut in several pieces, it depends on how big or small you would like the pancakes to be. 
6. Press firmly on the cut piece of dough, it should form a flat circle and start rolling out the dough until it forms a larger circle. After rolling out the dough to the desire size, brush the circle dough with oil, shortening or butter.
7. Sprinkle some salt and green onions on the circle dough, and roll the circle dough into a skinny log. 
8. Take the edge of the skinny log and form a circle and press firmly and roll the dough out into a circle.

After making all the Flaky Scallion Pancakes you would like, you can now fry them.
(You can make over 50 pieces and freeze them like what I did! But be sure to place wax paper to cover each pancake between each one. It will stick if you don't completely cover the pancakes with wax paper. I tried being eco-friendly and hope that I would save some wax paper...boy was I wrong...It all stuck together.)
9. Heat a frying pan with 1 TBSP of Sesame oil and slightly fry the pancakes until golden brown. 

10. Enjoy! Good Luck!

Homemade Asian Spongecake

Hey Everyone, I'm back with another delicious recipe diy Asian sponge cake. Theses are typically found at your local Asian grocery store. If you don't know what Asian sponge cake is then, you have been missing out. Asian sponge cake is a fluffy cake, moist and when bitten, the cake looks like it has a lot of mini holes, hence its name, sponge cake. So let's get started with this delicious recipe.

Ingredients:
Makes 12 sponge cake

For the yolk batter: 
7 egg yolks (Room temperature)
1 cup flour (cake flour)
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup of water
1/2 tsp baking powder

For the fluffy white batter:
7 egg whites (Room temperature)
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp cream of tartar

Kitchen appliance needed:

Electronic hand mixer/Kitchen Aid mixer
Spatula
Cupcake tin (12)

1. Preheat oven to 350* degrees 
2. Separate the egg whites and yolk in a mixing bowl
3. For the fluffly egg white mixture, add 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/4 tsp cream of tartar, mix with Kitchen Aid mixer until it forms peaks 
(very fluffy and when removing the mixer it should stand like a mountain peak)
4. For the yolk mixture, add the liquids together into the egg yolks, 1/2 cup of water and, 1/2 cup of oil. Add 1 cup of flour and 1/2 tsp of baking powder make sure to sieve these together when placing it in to the yolk mixture. To ensure there is no lumps. 
5. Take some wax paper and tear them into rectangle from the box, and then cut it diagonally, making triangles. Need 24 pieces.
6. Spray the pan with non stick, place 2 wax paper in each cupcake slots. There should be one point facing up.
7. Bake for 25-30 minutes, to make sure it is cooked, stick a toothpick in one of the sponge cake, if it comes out clean it is done. It should look slightly golden brown.
8. Let it cool down for 10 minutes. 
9. Enjoy! 

Yummy!!!! I went to the Tous Les Jours in the Hmart at Edison, NJ. I have to tell you it is amazingly good. I bought two cakes from them already for birthdays and I have to say neither one of them disappointed my friends at all. The cakes were delicious and everyone was asking me where I have bought the cake from. The cake is perfectly sweet, it not overly sweet like the American cakes. The cake is fluffy and moist with every bite. I have to say the cake is on the pricey side tho. The cake ranges from $30-40 dollars. I stopped by this time and did not get a cake. I bought fresh bread that just came out the oven. It was nice, warm, fluffy, and moist. It was full of deliciousness. We came here really early right when it just opened. 

Have anyone tried Tous Les Jours?